Apple precocious introduced the quality to edit your texts connected iOS 16, allowing you to hole grammatical mistakes oregon incorrect accusation successful already sent messages. It's a diagnostic I've wanted for years -- and I cognize I'm not unsocial successful that.

Twitter precocious added an editing enactment for tweets, truthful it lone makes consciousness that Apple would leap connected the hype bid and merchandise its ain mentation for the iPhone.

Well, I'm present to accidental that you shouldn't beryllium utilizing the caller editing feature.

In this story, I'll explicate what's incorrect with the edit substance connection diagnostic connected iOS 16, and amusement you a overmuch amended alternative. Here's what you request to know.

Why debar the edit substance connection feature?

The biggest crushed wherefore you shouldn't usage the edit substance connection diagnostic is because of the edit history. 

To explain, I'll request to backmost up a bit.

When Apple released the archetypal developer beta mentation backmost successful June, the bundle included the edit substance connection feature, but it worked differently. If you edited a substance connection utilizing the aboriginal mentation of iOS 16, your recipient would beryllium notified that the substance connection had been edited, with an edit fastener appearing successful the thread, but that's all. They couldn't spell backmost and spot what your archetypal connection said.

During the improvement of iOS 16, Apple tweaked the diagnostic truthful that it includes a past of each your edits. Now, erstwhile you edit a message, the recipient is not lone notified but tin easy presumption your archetypal substance and each of your consequent edits.

Your archetypal text, arsenic good arsenic consequent edited substance messages, look arsenic faded bluish chat bubbles supra the astir precocious edited text.

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If a recipient wants to presumption a message's history, they tin pat the Edited fastener that appears underneath immoderate edited substance message. Above the edited text, each erstwhile messages look successful a faded bluish bubble. If you don't privation your recipient to spot your archetypal connection (for immoderate reason), that's a large problem.

So what's the alternative?

What you should bash alternatively of editing substance messages

The reply lies successful different caller iOS 16 substance messaging diagnostic -- unsending messages. Instead of editing a substance connection to close oregon erase thing you don't privation the recipient to see, simply unsend it, rewrite it and nonstop it again arsenic a caller substance message.

You person little clip to unsend a connection (2 minutes) than to edit 1 (15 minutes), but you should ever take to unsend a connection if you person the opportunity. To unsend a substance message, property your digit down connected the substance connection you privation to instrumentality backmost and deed the Unsend option.

If you unsend a substance message, the recipient won't person a past to spell done and work it.

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When you unsend a substance message, there's nary past near down successful that message. The recipient volition spot that you've unsent a message, but they won't beryllium capable to work what your archetypal connection said. And if they person substance notifications on, those volition vanish erstwhile a connection is unsent.

There's ever the accidental that idiosyncratic volition work a connection earlier you're capable to retract it, but unsending it improves the chances of your substance ne'er being read. It's a overmuch amended stake than editing, which leaves down a grounds of your archetypal connection for the recipient to see.

If you don't privation your archetypal substance connection to beryllium recorded and seen, and you tin enactment rapidly wrong the allotted 2 minutes, ever unsend a substance connection and past conscionable constitute it again.